Michael Kilian

Cortnee Smith, a high school honors student, last year had her mind set on joining the National Guard. Her parents supported her. Friends in the Army told her what to...

No one has produced a comedy about the war in Iraq. Whether that dubious prospect ever becomes reality remains to be seen. World War II is another matter. It is...

It was only a three-week gig in a 26-year-old play on an out-of-town stage 250 miles from the Great White Way, but the two veteran actresses leapt at the opportunity....

Diane Arbus and her camera looked at so many things from which the rest of us avert our eyes. She kept looking not only until she found her picture but...

You could call him the world's first fashion magazine editor in chief, Louis XIV. Originally bound in leather, this "fashion magazine" a collection of beautifully hand-colored engravings depicting men and...

It's not easy, being good. Certainly not in Deadwood, the actual if also somewhat mythological Dakota gold-strike town that figures in Wild West history as the Wild Bill Hickock murder...

The amazing accomplishments of French artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) went beyond the success he enjoyed as the most celebrated and some say most talented painter in the Europe of his...

As I'm sure you have long suspected, there is more to Great Britain than royal nuzzlings and nuptials. Delighted as we all are with the happy conclusion of Prince Charles'...

Those of us who have long waited for "Law & Order's" formidable female cop S. Epatha Merkerson to one day have a starring role are getting our reward -- and...

Seeking spending restraint unseen since the 1980s, President Bush on Monday proposed a $2.57 trillion federal budget that cuts spending for education, farming and numerous other domestic programs while boosting...